In the Schluntz Gymnasium or on Parsons Field, the stands are often filled with eager students ready to cheer on the basketball and football teams, respectively, with their bright blue and red Brookline Superfan shirts. However, the stands never seem to be filled during sporting events such as swim meets or tennis matches.

The Superfans have come a long way since they first started. With frequent tweets and Facebook posts, students are always informed on where and when to attend games such as basketball, football, soccer and volleyball. Though the Superfans have helped increased fan attendance for certain sports teams, athletes that play other sports wish they had more support from their fellow students.

According to senior Sammy Koenig, one of the heads of the Superfans, basketball is the most popular sporting event to attend for fans.

“Basketball is the the sport that definitely generates the most spectators, so we may favor that a little more than other sports,” Koenig said.

According to junior Ben Gerber, another head of the Superfans, some sports at the school are better suited to entertain fans than others.

“Some sports are just hard for fans to go to,” Gerber said. “Like the swim meets: It gets really hot in there, and kids just don’t want to go. Or wrestling, I think wrestling’s kind of hard to watch just because of the room it’s in. Some sports are fan sports and some just really don’t have a fan attendance.”

According to senior swim team captain Emily Lisanti, the fan attendance at swim meets is very low, and unless you have a specific person to cheer for, the meets can often be slow and not very fun to watch. According to Lisanti, she understands why the humid pool bleachers are not always full but said, “it would be nice to have some supporters in the stands.”

The Superfans are a school club devoted to spreading school spirit through increasing fan presence at sporting events, according to Koenig. One of their methods to promoting fan attendance at games is by choosing a “game of the week.”

“We pick games that we know are good spectator sports and will attract a good crowd,” Koenig said.

“In the past, some teams have come and asked, ‘why don’t you make such and such a game of the week?’ and the truth is we try to pick games that we think are good spectator sports,” Superfan club advisor Michael Normant said. “It’s not to undervalue other sports or players who have worked hard or anything.”

According to junior Theo Tamayo, a member of the boys varsity tennis team, the team fails to attract as many fans as sports like football and basketball do.

“At big matches, like the Newton North match, we can have a good number of fans, but at a lot of others, we have very few,” Tamayo said.

According to Tamayo, the team does better when there are people to support them.

“It’s not a very well-known sport and the courts are not very spectator-oriented, but the team could do more to advertise and encourage people to come to matches. There could be some investment in adding bleachers or seats to the courts,” Tamayo said.

Tamayo added that the Superfans could play a large role in influencing and encouraging more students to attend tennis matches and other sports with low fan attendance records.

According to Gerber, the Superfans typically choose varsity home games that take place on Fridays in order to increase convenience for students looking to attend the game of the week. Normant said the team records do not come into play when choosing the game of the week.

“My goal has always been to get people to go be supportive of their peers no matter whether the teams are winning or losing,” he said, “and I really hope that people want to go because it’s a fun environment.”

Irene Gilbert and Caroline Fishkin can be contacted at [email protected].